To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

We love things we love what they are.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Love is trembling happiness.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

All you need is love.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

My wife is already in Heaven.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.